Killing of Jew 'not anti-Semitic'

The Australian: "HE calls himself the 'Brain of the Barbarians'. But France's most wanted man, gang leader Youssef Fofana, has denied accusations anti-Semitism motivated the kidnapping, torture and killing of Ilan Halimi, a Parisian Jew.

The telephone salesman died on February 13 soon after he was found near a suburban Paris train station, naked, bound, gagged and suffering burns and torture marks to 80 per cent of his body.

The three-week hell allegedly inflicted on Halimi by Fofana's gang of 'barbarians' in a densely populated suburban Paris housing block where neighbours turned a blind eye has horrified France, which has the largest Jewish population in Europe."